Bathinda

The Kotkapura grain market is beset with a host of problems on the infrastructure front. Built in the 1980s, the structure and building is unable to drain rainwater completely, the roads are potholed and stray animals and thieves are a major concern and worry for farmers as well as commission agents.

A policemen deployed as a gunman with the senior superintendent of police (vigilance), Bathinda range, was killed and the SSP and two other policemen had a narrow escape when an eucalyptus tree from inside the premises of the official residence of the deputy commissioner fell on the police official's official vehicle outside the circuit house near the mini-secretariat here on Monday evening.

Two students of Class-10 were caught while copying in the board exams during a raid by a flying squad of the education department at GSS School at Multania village. The defaulters have been identified as Jaswinder Singh and Nirmal Singh. Slips with answers of questions written on them were seized from them. Shivpal Goyal,

The 'exorbitant' fee demanded by a Dehradun-based laboratory to test samples of the kerosene oil recovered from a sweets shop here about three months ago has virtually stumped the Bathinda district police.

A private company not only sold its equipments from the stall of Punjab agriculture department at the kisan mela organised by Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, at its regional centre here on Friday, but also gave 'on the spot' subsidy to farmers, which is impossible otherwise.

The allotment of 202 shops for Punjab-made medium liquor (PML) and 55 shops of Indian-made foreign liquor (IMFL), spread across eight circles of the district, was made here on Friday through a circle-wise draw of lots.

The non-functioning of the civilian airport at Bhisiana near here even after 10 months of the formation of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government at Centre, of which the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) is a constituent, seems to be becoming a thorn on the SAD's side.

The police here have arrested two cousins for killing all the six members of the family of Banke Bihari Lal, a migrant labourer of Bihar. The duo had killed five of them at their house near Langer Sahib Gurdwara in Talwandi Bhai, about 32 km from here on Thursday last, while Banke Bihari Lal’s 17-year-old daughter, who was reported missing when bodies of five members of the family were found at their house, and was taken away by them to Himachal Pradesh, was murdered later.

Hundreds of employees working under the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) from across the state were allegedly canecharged at Lambi when they tried to move towards Badal village in the afternoon. The police used water cannons to disperse the protesting employees. When the police forced them to stop, they sat on a dharna there which continued till Wednesday evening.

A native of Nepal, employed as domestic help at the house of district (rural) president of the women wing of the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) decamped with gold ornaments worth lakhs of rupees, cash and a revolver from the house in Bhagta near Bathinda on Monday night.